A New Year is upon us; Congratulations!! We all made it through the old one

Reviewing 2018.....The last of the diesel MAN SL202's was retired, with retirements continuing with CNG MAN SL202's.Financial problems at Custom Coaches saw new bus deliveries for Adelaide shifted to Bustech.The election in March 2018 saw a change of government to Liberal, after having had Labor in power for 16 years.Tram services commenced on the new extensions to Festival Plaza and Botanic Garden, after some delays.The "Torrens to Torrens" section of the North-South Motorway opened. The intersection of Port Rd and South Rd now has bus lanes in both directions on Port Rd.Work continues apace on the Oaklands Crossing grade separation project.Torrens Transit bought the operations of Light-City Buses, integrating services in October. The South Australian Government withdrew their funding of The Overland train service between Adelaide and Melbourne (commencing 1 Jan 2019), however the Victorian government have increased their funding to keep the service operational.

Festive/Holiday timetables finish tonight. Normal weekday services back from Monday morning(excluding school services).Hopefully DPTI will review the services they ran over the last 2 weeks and fix them for next Xmas/New year Festive Timetables the many frequency/timetable problems that have occurred as well as customer feedback, criticisms.

transenthusiast wrote:I saw 1629 running special along Grenfell St heading towards Currie St this arvo. According to Fleet Lists it's been withdrawn, can anyone confirm that

I haven't seen a single SL202 out since December last year, but I think I've heard somewhere that 1626-1627, 1629/1630 have done their last run.

This means that the extremely dull and bland 1631 is the oldest bus in service. I'm hoping it will still be on track on Monday when regular services resume, as I honestly wouldn't mind another ride on it before it ends up with the aforementioned ones.

transenthusiast wrote:I saw 1629 running special along Grenfell St heading towards Currie St this arvo. According to Fleet Lists it's been withdrawn, can anyone confirm that

I haven't seen a single SL202 out since December last year, but I think I've heard somewhere that 1626-1627, 1629/1630 have done their last run.

This means that the extremely dull and bland 1631 is the oldest bus in service. I'm hoping it will still be on track on Monday when regular services resume, as I honestly wouldn't mind another ride on it before it ends up with the aforementioned ones.

Fleet Lists was updated last week to reflect those 5 withdrawals. All 5 have been squeezed into the "retirement area" at the front of Morphettville Depot.

busrider wrote:MFS paging shows that there was a bus fire on Currie St this afternoon, doesn't mention which one though.

99% certain it was an NL202 (sorry don't remember the fleet number) at least 2 or 3 fire extinguishers were used before the MFS arrived.Quite interesting to watch while waiting for a bus in Grenfell St.

busrider wrote:MFS paging shows that there was a bus fire on Currie St this afternoon, doesn't mention which one though.

Why would they bother telling the public what fleet number the bus is the only people that need to know is the insurance company, bus company and the State Government.

What the public do have a right to know since its the public's money contributing to the purchase of these buses and these bus operator contracts is why are many buses in the past decade or so catching fire randomly, is maintenance slipping if so bus operators need to be held accountable also does this mean bus companies are breaching the contract. are bus manufacturers cutting corners potentially putting lives at risk if so need to be held accountable as this would be a breach of contract and laws, faulty cars get recalled why shouldn't these faulty buses.

Its only a matter of time till a casuality/casualities or a fatality occurs.

Is this happening more or less since privatisation? Is it time this privatisation stops and buses be publicly owned and runned again?

According to the realtime info, several services have been running 20+ minutes late this afternoon/evening. Even a service departing West Lakes in the next 20 minutes is showing up as being 38 minutes late.

Would there be a reason behind this? Although, most services seem to be back on time.

Heat has played havoc with all bus,tram and train services today.Many buses have either had to slow down or have longer breaks to cool down,also maintenance vans have been flat out on bus call outs,delaying services.